Associate Professor in Development Studies at Malmö University, Sweden. Global development. Humanitarianism. Communication & Social Change. Chief Blogger at www.aidnography.de since 2010.
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Tobias Denskus
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Rest Well, Raul Pacheco-Vega
Our community lost the inimitable Raúl Pacheco-Vega this week. Someone who knew him better than me should write a more definitive remembrance and maybe they have in some other corner of the internet. But, I haven’t seen a longer treatment yet (here is a terrific one!),…
Our community lost the inimitable Raúl Pacheco-Vega this week. Someone who knew him better than me should write a more definitive remembrance and maybe they have in some other corner of the internet. But, I haven’t seen a longer treatment yet (here is a terrific one!), so I thought I’d have a go at a remembrance. Raúl lived his life…
Why doesn't every hot spring resort have a group of raccoon dog superheros representin' them?!?
"How do we stop school shootings?" "Make schools look like prisons!", "How do we stop students from using AI?" "Make colleges look like prisons!", "How do we look after homeless people?" "Make housing look like prisons!"...with the US carceral hammer, every social institution turns into a nail...
aaaand we are another step closer to the day when American schools, universities & prisons will be basically indistinguishable in form + function...a privatized panopticon that charges you 50k for access to Teams...
Of course University of Tennessee requires you to check with their lawyers if you are planning to include a link to a Bernie Sanders Op-ed from 2021 in your email signature, because it's the country where 75% of Substack punditery lives off "free speech"/cancel culture posts...
If you think AI sucks, read who sat on the real life panel (...) author, entrepreneur & former chief business officer at Google X; (...) senior director of AI at the Tony Blair Institute for Global Change, (...) founder and CEO of London-based AI company Synthesia.
